Sunday, March 31, 2013

I've been looking at different sites for ideas if or when this whole thing goes pear shaped.

I see a lot of different scenarios, but most gloss over the whole *what do you do with your pet* thing.
We have two cats and two dogs. One dog tries to be a dog, but the other is just a fur footrest.

I could see living with them if we had enough food and water and we stayed in one place, but the dilemma is when we might have to move on foot. One cat is savvy enough that she'd be able to keep up and out of trouble- the other one is a house Tribble.
I'd be tempted to throw down a steak for the dogs and end it for them while they're doing their favorite thing.

On the other hand, should we force them to get lost (maybe) and live through the starving times in the hope that something better will come along? I don't think any of them except the cat could catch their own food, or stay out of trouble if walking free.

Friday, March 29, 2013

hello friends,
Last year I made the decision to trust my life on the street to Second Chance body armor. I got the level IIa because it stops the most rounds. plus I got the Trauma Plate for the front.
What scares me is that, although I can fit an extra trauma plate in the front, I cannot fit a second one in back. As of late I have taken to duct-taping a second trauma plate to the area of my back where the heart and vital organs are located. Then I put my vest on.
Here is the questions. The duct tape solution, although tactically sound, is hot and painful to remove. I would like to go to the single-plate solution in back. What I am worried about is repeated hits to that area with .308 ammunition. I have a high-risk security job and I fear that I would be the target for repeated long-distance shots to my back.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Kicking ass on zombies that would take down a normal person and kicking ass on un-dammaged people.
Must have been a real pillar of something before the Zombieclypse.

I kinda feel bad for Daryl, having to finish off Merle and all... but the world's a better place
without him.

And--WTF is with the History channel and that stupid "Vikings" BS? Seriously? A crappy, badly written soap that I couldn't stand to watch more that ten minutes of???
I hope they didn't pay too much for the writers, costumers (plywood shields??) or actors for this thing.

Monday, March 18, 2013

On this day in 1937, a massive explosion caused the steel-framed school
building in New London, in Rusk County, to collapse, killing a reported
298 people. It was the worst school disaster in United States history.
Of the 500 students in the building, only about 130 escaped serious
injury. The explosion, which was heard four miles away, occurred when a
manual-arts teacher turned on a sanding machine and inadvertently
ignited a mixture of gas and air. Three days after the explosion,
inquiries were held to determine the cause of the disaster.
Investigators learned that in January 1937, to save gas expenses of $300
a month, the school board and superintendent had authorized plumbers to
tap a residue gas line of H. L. Hunt's Parade Gasoline Company.

After investigating, the TX Railroad Commission ordered that, because natural gas is almost unidentifiable by people without gas detectors, there be added to all domestic and utility gas an odorizer so anyone would know when the had a gas leak.

This orodizer comes in two types, B.P. Captain and Mercaptan. Both have the sulphery smell that we now associate with gas.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

They're wondering if it will happen here, and when.
It HAS already happened here, you probably don't remember the UAW GM bailout that stole some 90% of stockholders property and gave it to the UAW for their payoff in getting 0bama elected- do you?

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Sunday, March 03, 2013

In this next episode of The Walking dead--Andrea will still be naked and trying to decide whether to kill the Governor- or not.
She'll decide not to and the Governor will say something like "I was wondering where your loyalties lay...them or us".

Then he'll throw her out.

EDIT to add:
Yeah, I'd never make a Hollywood script writer- but I did know (in future episodes that the Governor is alive and well (ish).

Saturday, March 02, 2013

I went to cash a check that the .GOV doesn't need to know about.
On the way back I stopped at a pawn shop and almost bought a SMLE carbine for $230 except that the sales-people were busy with a lot of other people and I didn't see one box of .303 anywhere.

so I was on the way home when I saw...

...And said to myself- should I? It doesn't look that crowded...
Then I was turning in from the far driveway, I saw the overflow lot:

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and
property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and
for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far
from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and
inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers
for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they
have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the
whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without
their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of
sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which
every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood,
both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of
power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation
is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of
freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution
discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being
regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and
mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the
point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the
part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved
into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature,
the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of
the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political
affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right
towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to
abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to
rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare
and happiness.

Friday, March 01, 2013

And Karen and I went to Hondo for dinner, where we found every eatery almost brimming with customers. After ending up at Pizza Hut with almost no customers (for good reason), I realized that it was March 1st and the Sequester didn't affect all those .GOV handouts today.

This brings up two important points:
1- If your old boss really needs someone to use a rock drill, it's ok to get $20/hr (cash) for sitting on a noisy machine for 8 hours.

2- That fiscal cliff we're supposed to worry about is more like a sidewalk curb.